The Blind Eye

Well, MegaCon Sunday has come and gone - and let’s just say it was a frantic weekend well worth the time, travel and work!  We made a lot of new friends and learned a lot of lessons about promoting The Blind Eye for future conventions.  Amanda spent much of the convention working on commissions, and we have pictures of all of them in the MegaCon Blog entries.  Some clearer scans of a few will also be available on her DeviantArt page, so check’em out there!  Today, I took in a Sunday conversation panel with DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio!  Dan is such an engaging and funny guy – it’s really admirable the way he interacts with the fans in these panels to gauge how they feel about various aspects of the DCU and provides thoughtful, honest feedback, always with an eye to the fan perspective.  I always read transcripts of these panels  on a few comics news sites, so it was a lot of fun actually being there for one!

Looking back on MegaCon 2010, a few things really stand out:  1. Funniest moment:  we offered a promotional card for our Clown Town horror comic for Small Press Idol 2010 to a fan walking by, and he immediately threw it back to the table, exclaiming, “Clowns freak me out!”  2. We needed merch to sell – Con-goers want stuff to take home – SO:  look for an exclusive Great White print and some other swag at HeroesCon in June!  3. Comic fans, regardless of genre, are some of the most thoughtful, kind people you’ll ever meet – EVERYONE was so nice and fun to get to know!  4.  The most common complaint about web comics:  absence of updates.  Fear not!  We have three months of fully completed material in the can, so we WILL be on schedule!  5. Fans LOVE Amanda’s spontaneous sketches and commissioned pieces – she was drawing frantically – and beautifully – almost to the very moment the Con closed!

We’ll continue to expound on our truly terrific MegaCon experience over the next few days and weeks, but be sure to check out our pictures for Day 3 below!  There were a few gems we missed when without the camera for a few moments – my favorite of which was a conga line of Tetris pieces bounding through the aisles, only to be accosted by one clever fan who yelled, “Damn you, L-shaped Tetris piece!  Damn you to Hell!”  Simply.  Classic.  Enjoy the pics and let us know what you think!

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